It is mostly about stories on the Korean people’s struggles against the U. S. bases in Korea. Hope many of you find some clues and sources here. Please just be kind and fair to the source.많은 분들께서 여기에서 단서들과 자료들을 찾길 바랍니다. 다만 단서와 자료의 기원에 대해 친절하고 공정하게 표기해 주시면 감사하겠읍니다.

Jinhae was developed as a naval base (Chinkai Naval Station) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Japanese occupation period in the early 20th century. [...]

The city is primarily supported by the Korean Naval personnel and their families or people working for the Republic of Korea Navy shipyard and base facilities. Today, Jinhae hosts major naval facilities of the South Korean Navy including Commander-in-Chief Republic of Korea Fleet (CINCROKFLT) and the Naval Academy.Jinhae is part of a large urban corridor that links the adjacent cities of Masan and Changwon. These three cities will merge as one in the near future.

Moreover, the city is also host to the only US Naval base in Korea, US Naval Fleet Activities, Chinhae.___________________________________________________________________

The families of the missing crew members wait on the barge while the crane commences lifting and say,“What on earth are they going to hide?”

Meanwhile, a man representing military officials is extracted and found to be clutching a locked box labeled “Separate the already-rescued survivors from the public, and conceal the informationabout the severed side of the Cheonan’s hull.”

The military has come under fire for immediately isolating the rescued crew members of the Cheonan, leading to concerns over whether the leadership is intentionally moving to keep information from the public.

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It has passed more than a week that the Cheonan navy ship was sunken. Instead the news of the 46 missing soldiers’ alive returning back, we only hear the news of the additional sacrifices of the people who went for the rescue of those, including the deceased, Han Joon-Ho, the chief warrant officer and of the salvage of the deceased Nam Ki-Hoon, the master sergeant, as the corpse.

Even though one week has passed since the occurrence of the accident, the Lee Myung Bak government and the Ministry of the National Defense, without being able to properly announce even the ‘accident occurrence time, ’ have still remained only the question mark. It is the situation that the military’s official view [regarding time] has currently changed, to 9:22pm that was moved up of 23minutes from the first announcement of 9:45 pm, in the night of [March] 26.

The people, saying, “ While the measure against the accident is pissed around, it has been professionally dealt with, to intercept, hide and manipulate the information, “ have built higher the wall of the distrust.

The National Assembly, to make a breakthrough such situation, held the inquiry for the emergent current issues in the frame of the National Assembly on April 2. I, standing as one of the persons inquiring the current issues raised, thought the open demand for the new materials that haven’t been refined, rather than diagnosis and answer of the cause by the assumption and inference against the government who only hides the truth of the accident, would be far more effective.

I also pointed out another problems necessary for the settlement of the suspicion of a cause and suggested to make the agenda of it. But as my inquiry order was placed near end, feeling sorry that most press is missing several new points that could help the examination of the substantive truths, I want to re-summarize the several points that I raised in the inquiry.

첫째, 국방부가 KNTDS(해군전술지휘체계)에 따라 확보하고 있는 천안함의 사고 직전의 레이더 화면을 공개해야 합니다.

First of all, the Ministry of the National Defense Department should make public of the radar screen right before the accident of the Cheonan navy ship, which it is securing according to the KNTDS (Navy Tactical Command System).

In the Cheonan navyship, the Patrol Combat Corvette (PCC), there are total five radars and among them, one is transmitted-recorded in real time to the Second fleet (*in Pyeongteak), headquarter of navy, headquarter of the Navy Operational Command, and the Joint Staff Center. Therefore, once figuring out the timing that the radar screen was off, the Ministry of the National Defense could enough know of the time of the accident occurrence. Even Kim Tae-Young, the Minister of the National Defense acknowledged the existence of the radar and could not deny such analysis.

If [the ministry] makes public of the radar screen by the time of right before the accident, I think it is possible to know where the Cheonan navy ship was located at the time; how was the vicinity environment of it; and even what was the reason of its being sunken.

It could be the very important material to judge whether it is by the attack from the outside as the claim by the cold war ideologists or by the inner destruction such as fatigue destruction or hull destruction. If the Ministry of the National Defense does not just deny the ‘journal of the situation report’ that the MBC, [the broadcasting company]’ self-obtained and reported, but make public of the original source, it is the solvable matter.

Even though the Ministry of the National Defense is not making public the communication messages for the reason of the military secret, because in case of the radar screen, it could be seen only with the situation of the watered area of the accident spot in the western sea at the time, it cannot be said that it is the military secret. Therefore, there is no reason that the Ministry of the National Defense cannot make public of it.

Together with it, through the making public of the radar screen, one can enough prove whether the reason that the Sokcho navy ship, fired the 76mm primary gun, 130 times for 5min. from 23pm, according to the KNTDS system, was really because of the “flock of birds" as the Ministry of the National Defense claimed; or was because of ‘the attack by the North Korea –a suspicion-’ as the rumor has it; or was because of the intention to disguise the fire as the attack by the North Korea- a suspicion.’

이러한 KNTDS 레이더 화면 공개 지적에 대해 대다수의 언론이 간과하고 있는 것에 매우 유감스럽게 생각 합니다.

I feel very sorry that the majority of the media ignore on my pointing out the [need] of making public of the KNTDS radar screen.

The making public of the radar screens of the Patrol Combat Corvette (PCC), Cheonan navy ship, and the Sokcho navy ship, that the Ministry of the National Defense secures according to the KNTDS system is the critical proof that would be the key [to solve] the accident. It must be made public. There is no reason that it should not be made public.

Even though Kim Tae-Young, Minister of the National Defense saying, “The people will not properly understand it,’ answered that, “It is the role of the Ministry of the National Defense that properly interpret and analyze it,” his is very arrogant attitude and our people, and the civilian analysis specialists have the enough ability to read ‘what the truth is.’

결국 함미를 발견한 것도 민간 어선 아니었습니까?

Ultimately, wasn’t it the civilian fishing boat that discovered the stern of the warship, was it?

Please promptly make public of it. If you make public of it, after delaying the time and eating crow, it would only bring out another suspicion. The only way that the military and the government can recover the truth is to make public of all the original resource without delaying.

또한 언론인들이 이 점에 대해서 올바른 지적을 해주실 것을 기대해 봅니다.

I also expect that the journalists would rightly point out on this matter.

Second, a clear truth examination is needed for the cause of the insincerity of the moving response in the early period. The response of the early move this time was abominable to the degree that it cause no harm to say it was in fact, the human disaster by the Lee Myung Bak government and to the level that nobody can understand if you ask ebody of it.

About the accident in which among 104 crews, 58 survived and 46 are being missed, a substantive truth and proper evaluation should be realized: whether the moving response in the early period was really good as the talk of the President and whether the after-measure was good.

After the Cheonan navy ship has sunken, because the installation of the tags was not properly practiced, it took about 2~3 days to search for the sunken navy ship. The 69 hours that was the survival-possible duration time for 46 missing soldiers in the sea was wasted.

It is the second disaster. If the fact that the Cheonan navy ship was sunken is the first disaster, to waste the 69 hours of the survival-possible duration time to look for the navy ship was the second disaster.

이 제2의 사고에 대해서 우리는 정확한 책임규명을 해야 할 필요가 있습니다.

We need to make clear examination on the responsibility for the second disaster.

How was the search for the navy ship? After an hour that the Ongjin navy ship, the minesweeper arrived, receiving the information from the fishing boat, it finally found the stern of the warship. But it took more than 50 hours that the Ongjin navy ship arrived in the disaster site. Ultimately, because the arrival of the Ongjin navy ship was late, the 69 hours of the survival-possible duration time of the missing soldiers were wasted.

During the time of the people’s government and participatory government, the minesweepers, considered of the particularly distinctiveness of our territory where threesides are surrounded by sea, had been deployed of two for each side of the eastern sea and western sea where they could make best of their prompt expeditionary force.

However, the Lee Myung-Bak government did the hardly understandable act that it deployed all the minesweepers in Jinhae. This can be only seen as the non-military measure pursued by the political civil appeal that says as the navy headquarter in Jinhae moves to Busan, the local economy becomes to have problem.

If it is the military and common sense judgment to deploy the [minesweepers] in dispersal in the three sea side to make the prompt and proper operation practice in the country of the three sea sides, it cannot be said that it was only non military but political decision to deploy all the [minesweepers] in only one sea, the southern sea.

If the Ongjin navy ship had been deployed in Pyeongteak as in the periods of the People’s government and Participatory government, 11 hours are enough to arrive into the accident site. It is only one fifth of 50 hours. Then it was possible to enough utilize the 69 hours of 46 missing soldiers’ possible survival time and to save them.

As even Kim Tae Young, the Minister of National Defense answers that he would “consider the redeployment, ” the concentrated deployment of the minesweepers in Jinhae could not be done from the viewpoint of the military judgment.

Why? I ask the journalists’ effort for the sincere and acute truth examination of why the minesweepers were concentrated deployed in Jinhae, the corner of the southern sea, different from the periods of the people’s government and participatory government.

셋째, 이번 천안함 침몰 사고로 같이 침몰한 이명박 정부의 위기대응 능력에 대해 대통령의 진지한 사과가 필요 합니다.

Third, we need the President Lee Myung Bak’s sincere apology for his [poor] ability to respond to crisis, that sunk together, with the accident of sunken Cheonan navy ship.

천안함 침몰에 있어서 이명박 정부는 처음부터 모든 것을 충분히 알 수 있는 정보가 있었습니다.

In the sinking of Cheonan navy ship, the Lee Myung Bak government had all the information to enough know everything from the beginning.

Together with the communication exchange record, radar screen according to the KNTDS, the movie of the sinking ship, recorded by the TOD soldier, and the testimonies by the 58 survivors including the navy chief, the Lee government had every information to properly know about the accident of the sunken Cheonan navy ship from the beginning.

그럼에 도 우왕좌왕, 이해불가의 대처와 대응으로 높은 불신의 벽 만 쌓았습니다.

Despite that, it acted in confusion, with hardly understandable measure and response to the accident, therefore, it has countered the high wall of distrust.

이해할 수 없는 군사배치로 실종자 수색의 어려움을 스스로 자초 했습니다.

With hardly understandable military deployment, it drew the difficulty in the search for the missing personnel, itself.

President Lee Myung-Bak, please accelerate the works on search and salvage while apologize at the same time. And please make public of all the original data, except for the parts on the military secret.

Please let’s make an effort together on the issue of the securing the radar screen according to the KNTDS and of making the clear truth examination of why the minesweepers were concentrated deployed in Jinhae.

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The site is managed by an artist living in the South Korea. The photo in the profile is the children in Osan, near the Pyeongtaek where the planned US military base hub in the north east Asia and a large US air base exists. They are the children of a teacher who manages the Children Peace School there. As a part of the class programs, the children in the class drew and wrote in a cloth, their wishes of the peaceful unification of Korea some day.